Current Security Issues
- 6 Worst Data Breaches Of 2011
12.30.11
Historically speaking, these 2011 data breaches rate among the biggest or most significant data-loss incidents to date. Source: InformationWeek
- Digital Data on Patients Raises Risk of Breaches
12.19.11
As part of the 2009 stimulus bill, the federal government provides incentive payments to doctors and hospitals to adopt electronic health records. An ...
- Risky business: 70% of young employees ignore IT security policies
12.15.11
A disturbing 70% of young employees said they often ignore the company’s IT security policies, according to a survey sponsored by Cisco. From: Infos...
- Five Big Database Breaches Of 2011's Second Half
12.15.11
Healthcare breaches dominate since the summer, with plenty of lessons learned. From: Dark Reading
- Data Breach: Alan M. Casson & Associates
12.12.11
Two unencrypted laptops and back up media containing info on 8,000 patients stolen during office burglary. From: DatalossDB
- Second Annual Patient Privacy Study Released
12.12.11
Widespread use of mobile devices is putting patient data at risk, according to the latest Ponemon Institute research on healthcare providers' patien...
- Fragmented encryption deployment increases firms' risks
12.05.11
While more companies are deploying encryption to secure data, this deployment is fragmented, creating greater risk for organizations, according to a s...
- Healthcare Data In Critical Condition
12.05.11
New study shows data breaches up and costing healthcare industry billions of dollars a year, with employees, mobile devices the weakest links. From: D...
- Medical data breaches soar, according to study
12.01.11
Data breaches in healthcare organizations are rising more than 30 percent year over year, with most organizations stating they've been breached in the...
- Data Breach - College of New Jersey
12.01.11
Vulnerability in Campus Student Employment System may have exposed 12,815 student job applicants' information. From: DataLossDB
- RockYou Lawsuit Settlement Leaves Question Marks On Breach Liability
11.29.11
Settlement is small, but legal experts say case might pave way for more lawsuits against breached companies. From: Dark Reading
- Sutter Health loses computer, data on 4.2 million
11.17.11
Northern California-based Sutter Health is the second major health care organization to fall victim to a major breach of unencrypted data. From: SC Ma...
- Breach Of University Server Threatens Personal Data Of More Than 175,000
11.15.11
Attackers at VCU use one server to launch an attack on a second server containing sensitive info. From: Dark Reading
- Network insecurity a growing concern among IT professionals
11.15.11
A full 66% of IT professionals reported that their networks were less secure than the previous year, according to a Lumension-sponsored annual survey ...
- Spreadsheet containing name, address, phone number, email address, major, level, class, college, student ID number, and GPA of 19,276 students accessible on the Internet
11.15.11
University of Texas - Pan American (UTPA) data loss incident circa 2011-11-11. From: DataLossDB
- Adidas Takes Websites Offline Following Security Breach
11.09.11
Hackers claim to have acquired and posted 500,000 email addresses and clear-text passwords. From: Dark Reading
- Data breach notification bill stalls in Senate
11.09.11
A national data breach notification bill introduced by Sens. John D. Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) and Mark Pryor (D-Ark.) has stalled in the Senate Commerce,...
- Univ. of Hawaii settles with 98,000 over five breaches
01.31.12
The University of Hawaii has settled a class-action data breach lawsuit brought by nearly 100,000 students, faculty, alumni and staff. Source: SC Maga...
- When it comes to customer data protection, firms are phoning it in
01.31.12
Only half of IT professionals believe that their organization made its best effort to protect customer and consumer information, according to a survey...
- Zappos Sued Over Data Breach
01.23.12
Class-Action Suit Argues Data Not Safeguarded. Source: BankInfoSecurity.com
- Former US national security officials urge Senate to pass cybersecurity bill
01.23.12
Former US national security officials from the Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations are pushing the Senate for passage of comprehensive cybersecur...
- Breach at Zappos exposes data on 24 million customers
01.18.12
Zappos, an online shoe and clothing retailer, is warning 24 million customers that a security breach has exposed their personal information, including...
- Viruses stole City College of S.F. data for years
01.18.12
Personal banking information and other data from perhaps tens of thousands of students, faculty and administrators at City College of San Francisco ha...
- Endpoint attacks cost firms close to half a million dollars annually
01.11.12
Attacks against endpoints are costing the average organization around $470,000 annually, according to a survey sponsored by Symantec. Source: Infosecu...
- Most users have not installed security software on their smartphones, survey finds
01.06.12
Nearly three-quarters of Americans have never installed data protection applications or security software on their smartphones to protect against data...